The Stranger (1991)
(Agantuk)
Country: IND/FR
Technical: col 120m
Director: Satyajit Ray
Cast: Utpal Dutt, Mamata Shankar, Dipankar Dey
Synopsis:
A Calcutta family is paid an impromptu visit by a relation long thought 'disappeared', who arrives empty-handed but proves more by his speech and manners than by his passport that he is who he claims to be.
Review:
Ray's last completed work explores the realms of hospitality and kinship, besides all manner of ethical and philological matters via the learned discourse of the visiting uncle. The latter is viewed with suspicion verging on hostility by the family's acquaintance, but his freedom from parochial attitudes confirms him as a Ray archetype. The film is touchingly performed by the relatives but too talky to rank among its director's finest work.
(Agantuk)
Country: IND/FR
Technical: col 120m
Director: Satyajit Ray
Cast: Utpal Dutt, Mamata Shankar, Dipankar Dey
Synopsis:
A Calcutta family is paid an impromptu visit by a relation long thought 'disappeared', who arrives empty-handed but proves more by his speech and manners than by his passport that he is who he claims to be.
Review:
Ray's last completed work explores the realms of hospitality and kinship, besides all manner of ethical and philological matters via the learned discourse of the visiting uncle. The latter is viewed with suspicion verging on hostility by the family's acquaintance, but his freedom from parochial attitudes confirms him as a Ray archetype. The film is touchingly performed by the relatives but too talky to rank among its director's finest work.
(Agantuk)
Country: IND/FR
Technical: col 120m
Director: Satyajit Ray
Cast: Utpal Dutt, Mamata Shankar, Dipankar Dey
Synopsis:
A Calcutta family is paid an impromptu visit by a relation long thought 'disappeared', who arrives empty-handed but proves more by his speech and manners than by his passport that he is who he claims to be.
Review:
Ray's last completed work explores the realms of hospitality and kinship, besides all manner of ethical and philological matters via the learned discourse of the visiting uncle. The latter is viewed with suspicion verging on hostility by the family's acquaintance, but his freedom from parochial attitudes confirms him as a Ray archetype. The film is touchingly performed by the relatives but too talky to rank among its director's finest work.